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[–] erlend_sh@lemmy.world 73 points 1 month ago (14 children)

Studies have identified some of the main sources of microplastics as:

plastic-coated fertilisers

plastic film used as mulch in agriculture

WTF?

plastics recycling.

Uuuuh…

[–] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 25 points 1 month ago (7 children)

plastic film used as mulch in agriculture

Wtf. Where and why?!

[–] SuperCub@sh.itjust.works 65 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

It's the black plastic bag material that people used to cover their soil and poke holes through for their crops.

I never thought it was called plastic mulch though.

[–] Revan343@lemmy.ca 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It serves the same purpose as actual mulch, which is blocking out weeds

[–] SuperCub@sh.itjust.works 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Yes, but mulch has the meaning of ground up wood, so I think most people would think it was ground up plastics.

[–] capital_sniff@lemmy.world 0 points 1 month ago

If it was ground up plastic it would probably just get carried off by the wind.

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